Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ciccio Ingrassia (5 October 1922 - 28 April 2003) was an Italian comedian. He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with comedian Franco Franchi. During the 1980s he also did television work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ciccio Ingrassia, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 05, 1922
Deathday: April 28, 2003
Popularity:
1973-12-18
Overview: In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-18
Popularity:
1970-12-02
Overview: The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-02
Popularity:
1964-06-30
Overview: In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-30
Popularity:
2004-09-24
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-24
Popularity:
1990-10-31
Overview: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
Genres: History Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-31
Popularity:
1984-11-23
Overview: Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-11-23
Popularity:
1961-11-17
Overview: Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-17
Popularity:
1975-02-27
Overview: A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-27
Popularity:
1976-04-30
Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-30
Popularity:
1967-11-03
Overview: Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-03
Popularity:
1966-07-29
Overview: The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-29
Popularity:
1972-07-27
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are two cousins who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they carry out the washing and drying of the horses and a bar service for the passing riders. One day a stranger saves them from an attempted robbery against them: the girl introduces herself as Calamity Jane, as well as Franco and Ciccio's aunt.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-27
Popularity:
1962-03-03
Overview: A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-03
Popularity:
1970-08-29
Overview: A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-29
Popularity:
1970-08-29
Overview: Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is also invaded by three prison fugitives who terrorize the lot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-29
Popularity:
1971-09-21
Overview: Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-21
Popularity:
1966-08-13
Overview: The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-13
Popularity:
1961-12-22
Overview: Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
Popularity:
1972-03-24
Overview: A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-24
Popularity:
1968-08-24
Overview: Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-24
Popularity:
1964-01-17
Overview: A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-17
Popularity:
1966-03-04
Overview: For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-04
Popularity:
1983-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
1969-01-01
Overview: Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
1974-08-12
Overview: A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-12
Popularity:
1966-12-07
Overview: Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-07
Popularity:
1970-04-16
Overview: Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-16
Popularity:
1961-08-10
Overview: Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-10
Popularity:
1968-12-12
Overview: Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-12
Popularity:
1969-04-02
Overview: Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-02
Popularity:
1968-04-13
Overview: A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-13
Popularity:
1963-09-25
Overview: A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-25
Popularity:
1962-08-16
Overview: Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-16
Popularity:
1964-08-22
Overview: Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-22
Popularity:
1966-03-18
Overview: Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-18
Popularity:
1962-09-20
Overview: Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-20
Popularity:
1964-12-31
Overview: Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
Popularity:
1967-05-03
Overview: Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-03
Popularity:
1970-08-28
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-28
Popularity:
1965-11-25
Overview: KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-25
Popularity:
1965-08-13
Overview: During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-13
Popularity:
1963-02-14
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
Popularity:
1970-09-04
Overview: An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-04
Popularity:
1964-10-14
Overview: Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-14
Popularity:
1967-12-13
Overview: Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-13
Popularity:
1968-09-26
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-26
Popularity:
1963-12-22
Overview: A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on his way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-22
Popularity:
1967-08-25
Overview: A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-25
Popularity:
1967-08-13
Overview: Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look for it.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-13
Popularity:
1963-02-21
Overview: Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-21
Popularity:
1964-09-01
Overview: "Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-01
Popularity:
1962-09-07
Overview: Two Sicilian cousins are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they realize they will have to adapt to the local customs. The tour will turn into a long series of troubles: the Sicilian cousins, to obtain the inheritance, will have to turn into real samurai.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-07
Popularity:
1964-06-21
Overview: Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-21
Popularity:
1971-03-11
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-11
Popularity:
1964-12-18
Overview: A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-18
Popularity:
1964-01-29
Overview: A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-29
Popularity:
1961-03-30
Overview: Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-30
Popularity:
1968-05-04
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-04
Popularity:
1965-04-08
Overview: Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-08
Popularity:
1970-03-26
Overview: Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-26
Popularity:
1964-05-22
Overview: Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-22
Popularity:
1965-06-26
Overview: Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-26
Popularity:
1965-04-14
Overview: Franco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in ponchos, one rides a small mule, one a large one. They are gun salesmen, peddling their wares from town to town.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-14
Popularity:
1964-12-03
Overview: In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-03
Popularity:
1964-01-15
Overview: Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-15
Popularity:
1995-02-09
Overview: Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-02-09
Popularity:
1976-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Popularity:
1983-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
1965-04-29
Overview: Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-29
Popularity:
1972-08-14
Overview: A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-14
Popularity:
1967-12-21
Overview: Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-21
Popularity:
1968-08-07
Overview: Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-07
Popularity:
1968-10-29
Overview: The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-29
Popularity:
1968-02-27
Overview: The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-27
Popularity:
1963-08-05
Overview: Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-05
Popularity:
1970-10-28
Overview: To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-28
Popularity:
1969-09-19
Overview: Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-19
Popularity:
1971-08-12
Overview: Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-12
Popularity:
1968-04-13
Overview: The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-13
Popularity:
1990-12-07
Overview: An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
Popularity:
1971-12-02
Overview: Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-02
Popularity:
1971-08-12
Overview: A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-12
Popularity:
1972-10-27
Overview: Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-27
Popularity:
1971-02-25
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
Popularity:
1991-03-29
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-03-29
Popularity:
1970-03-18
Overview: Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-18
Popularity:
1961-10-26
Overview: The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-26
Popularity:
1975-04-17
Overview: The marital problems of an American couple come to a head while visiting southern Italy with their impressionable young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-17
Popularity:
1971-02-18
Overview: Italian comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-18
Popularity:
1962-06-23
Overview: A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-06-23
Popularity:
1968-03-14
Overview: Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-14
Popularity:
1972-03-08
Overview: The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-08
Popularity:
1974-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
Popularity:
1967-12-21
Overview: In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage the bacteriological weapons the Nazis are preparing to use against the allied armies invasion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-21
Popularity:
1969-11-20
Overview: A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd couple on the trail of the real murderer who is thought to be working in a circus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-20
Popularity:
1971-10-28
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco: Nico Cavallaro. The two do not know that this is a smuggler of drugs and that you want to serve them to transport the goods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
Popularity:
1971-04-06
Overview: The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-06
Popularity:
1970-01-21
Overview: Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-21
Popularity:
1971-08-19
Overview: A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-19
Popularity:
1968-01-01
Overview: Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt carrying a nuclear weapon, and he is then persued by shady spy, named Ciccio, working for a spy organization led by the sinister Dr. Si (Yes) to find the atom bomb before anyone else does to blackmail the world, which leads to Franco and Ciccio forming an unlikely alliance to get the bomb for themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
1965-08-21
Overview: A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-21
Popularity:
1965-08-11
Overview: The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-11
Popularity:
1963-02-09
Overview: A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-09
Popularity:
1964-10-03
Overview: Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-03
Popularity:
1966-10-31
Overview: An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-31
Popularity:
1968-12-23
Overview: Two fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the Sicilian Mafia to travel to Milan to sell a large batch of wine. At first they have little luck, but soon they notice one of their competitors having great success using beautiful women to push their product. They adopt this model aggressively, but the women they hire end up enjoying so much success that their husbands become concerned and suspicious of their activities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-23
Popularity:
1965-12-24
Overview: Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
Popularity:
1988-05-18
Overview: 1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-18
Popularity:
1961-10-19
Overview: Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-19
Popularity:
2006-01-01
Overview: A story about the mythical film director
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-01
Popularity:
1960-09-26
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-26
Popularity:
1988-03-09
Overview: The film tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-09
Popularity:
1981-08-15
Overview: Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-08-15
Popularity:
1968-04-12
Overview: Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-12
Popularity:
1964-12-31
Overview: The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
Popularity:
1964-08-11
Overview: Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-11
Popularity:
1964-08-19
Overview: Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-19
Popularity:
1963-08-18
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-18
Popularity:
1972-02-03
Overview: Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-03
Popularity:
1964-05-29
Overview: In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-29
Popularity:
1972-12-21
Overview: Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
Popularity:
1973-03-08
Overview: A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-08
Popularity:
1969-12-23
Overview: A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
Popularity:
1996-06-23
Overview: Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-06-23
Popularity:
1962-12-07
Overview: An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-07
Popularity:
1967-09-08
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-08
Popularity:
1964-10-09
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-09
Popularity:
1965-10-15
Overview: Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-15
Popularity:
1965-03-25
Overview: Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-25
Popularity:
1965-11-26
Overview: It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-26
Popularity:
1964-12-24
Overview: Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-24
Popularity:
1964-03-28
Overview: An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-28
Popularity:
1962-11-30
Overview: A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-30
Popularity:
1974-04-11
Overview: A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-11
Popularity:
1979-01-12
Overview: A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
Popularity: